Unique Chinese style handbag: exquisite bamboo weaving

The bridge over the wild water is covered with waves and rushes.

Cut bamboo to make green baskets, and open crab doors at the door.

 - Wang Shucheng, Three Miscellaneous Poems after Rain

This little poem mentions a traditional Chinese craft, bamboo weaving.

It is the cool bamboo mat in summer, the fan that grandma shakes in her hand, the bamboo curtain in the shadow by the window, and a bamboo basket for drying fruit.

The summer in Anji is humid and hot. Bamboo is cool to the touch, with just the right amount of toughness and rigidity, and it allows for ventilation both above and below, making it very suitable for crafting various summer items.

Therefore, bamboo weaving is a traditional and distinctive handicraft in the Huzhou area and also represents the essence of Huzhou's culture.

Bamboo is split and shaved into thin slices, known as "miè" (bamboo slivers). The interweaving and crisscrossing of these bamboo slivers, both horizontally and vertically, can create an endless variety of patterns and produce a diverse array of bamboo woven products.

Vertical represents the nature of bamboo, while horizontal embodies human sensibility.

The value of a bamboo weaving piece lies not only in its beautiful and exquisite appearance, but more importantly in the fact that even when it becomes part of ordinary life, it still shines brightly, radiating the beauty of everyday use.

The history of bamboo weaving in China is long. As early as the Neolithic Age, people used bamboo to weave tools and store things.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, bamboo weaving became more and more refined, and the weaving patterns became rich, including square pattern, rice character pattern, loop pattern, wave pattern and so on.

Bamboo weaving is both a technology and an art.A bamboo weaving craft product includes a series of processes such as composition, making model, selecting bamboo, splitting bamboo, weaving and coloring. Each step requires attention, and all the work is reflected in the hands.

Bamboo is straight, but when split into pieces, it is flexible enough to weave into beautiful patterns in the hands of craftsmen.
The body is made of bamboo strips 2.8mm wide, woven into a very classic fish bone pattern, with fine and regular texture, clean and simple.
This pattern makes the bag surface flexible and elastic, wear-resistant and durable, and more solid.

The bamboo itself is also very particular.
There are two types of bamboo, head green and second green. The first layer is head green, which is the outermost layer of bamboo; the second layer is second green, which is the lower layer.
The advantages of green bamboo strips are good toughness, high density, smooth bamboo threads, durable and not easy to grow insects. The woven works will have the natural luster of bamboo.

"Bamberzon" This series of hand-made bags are woven with green bamboo strips. The surface of the bamboo bag is smooth and has a wax gloss.
The head green bamboo sheet itself has the natural texture and color of bamboo, with some mixed colors in it.The natural bamboo is bent and joined into a circle and polished smooth.
The hand-held touch is warm and comfortable, retaining the bamboo's own joints and texture, with a simple and natural atmosphere.